New Delhi: A team of Tibetan researchers has created a “Decoding Chinese Communist Party” database to tell the wider world what the Communist leaders actually mean when they utter certain phrases.
“We Tibetans have unique insights into our powerful neighbour. Often our lives depend upon close and critical readings of China’s official jargon. This website delves into implicit assumptions, unconscious biases, fear and projections of the official Chinese mind and offers keys to deeper understanding,” said Tsering Tomo, Director of the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy.
Delves into biases
The new website delves into implicit assumptions, unconscious biases, fear and projections of the official Chinese mind. —Tsering Tomo, Director, Tibetan centre for human rights and democracy
“China takes itself so seriously, which is a bit comical,” noted Tsering Dorje, the principal researcher and writer of “Decoding CPP”.
For instance, take the phrase “untrustworthy persons”. There are at least 10 phrases that hide behind this seemingly benign term and many of them lead to compulsory incarceration in a re-education centre to instil a change of identity. One description of an “untrustworthy person” is “persons with no official religious duties who possess religious knowledge”. In Xinjiang especially, such people require compulsory re-education.